Package-tie.



J. S. ALLEN. PACKAGE TIE. AYPLIOATION FILED H0124, 1909 1,093,096. MtenJped Agr. 14, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PACKAGE-TIE.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

application filed November 24, 1909. Serial No. 529,735.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatl, Join? S. Anton, a cit-1- zen of the United States, and a resident of Columbus, in the county of Muscogcc; State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which'the followingis, a full and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective device applied to fasten togeth r a packet of letters or papers; Fig. 2 a'detail plan view of the metal portion of the device, a portion of the, tongue of the buckle being shown in section; and Fig. 3 an edge elevation of the device shown in Fig. 2, Y

The object of this invention is to rovide a sim 1e and inex ensive and dura le device or tempora'r'ly tying 'up' papers and letters in packets, the invention consisting of certain novel features of construction hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim appended.

In the drawing, a designates an open wire frame or oop approximately triangular in shape, consisting of a straight bar 6, a

straight bar eat right angles to the bar I),

and a straight bar d connecting the ends of said bars 6 and c and lying at an angle of there-to;

Pivotally' attached to the bar 0, by means of eyes 6 are the side bars fof a U-shaped buckle frame, said eyes a being disposed at the respective ends of said bar 0, so that said buckle frame shall be capable of swinging on said bar 0 and ,will be prevented from having a. sliding action on saidbar 0 by the adjacent ends of bars 6 and (1. Also pivotally. mounted on, said bars 0 is a-buckle' tongue 9 whose eye portion rests in a groove -or notch h in said bar 0, midway its ends,

whereby the tongue is free to swing on said bar 0 and yet is prevented from having a sliding action along the same.

The strap '5 is attached .to the bar I), and when'the device is applied to a packet, the strap is passed around the same in one direc-. tion, then through the loop a, and then around the packet in the other direction, its

free end being phssedup through the buckle showing my will be observed also that by mountingthe and drawn taut and locked by the buckle tongue, said free end of the strap being provided with a series of eyeleted. holes to receive the tongue without tearing or cutting the strap. It will be observed that on making the second turn around the packet at rightlangles to the first turn, the strap is drawn against the oblique bar cl, and as this bar is straight at an'angle of 45 to the other "bars it will be seen that the pull onthe wire loop a is directly away from the buckle'and that distortion" and unequal strain on the strap where it makes the said reverse turn on the angle bar are entirely avoided. It

buckle directly on one of the bars o the loop that bar of the loop is' utiliz'dto form a part of the buckle frame, and it will be. further noted that by employing a pivoted buckle frame the buckle may be freely swung up and down independently of the loopafter the strap is drawn taut around the bundle and thus greatly facilitate the inserting and tightening of the free end of the strap. i i

In applying the'device to a. package, the metal member is placed centrally of the package, and held firmly in that position bypressing upon the triangular loop a, leaving the buckle portion free; the strap 1', is then passed around the package, its loose end passed under and through the buckle loop, and the tongue made'to engage one of the eyelets.

By forming the metal member with two parts hinged together, it can be readily seenthat the loose end of the strap'i can be passed under and through the buckle loop without releasing hold of the other member, thereby facilitating quick and accurate application of the device.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A package t-ie, comprising a right-angle triangle wire frame, a'strapsecured to one of the right-angle sides of said frame and' adapted to he guided around a package in alinement with the other-right-angle side by the hypotenuse side, a Ufshaped wire-frame 5 cqiiprati: to retglin the free (and of said strap having its terminal! ivoted on said second mentioned right-ange side and a. tongue pivoted to the same side as the terminals, said tnngue and u shaped frame adapted to signature in tlie.presenoe 'of two witnes ses thls 19 day of Now, 1909.

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